Ogilvy Fire 25% Contained at 175 Acres

The Ogilvy Fire is now 175 acres and 25% contained. Ten crews are on the line, with limited access for engines. Favorable weather conditions and air support were key in limiting spread, reports the Los Padres National Forest.

Update by edhat staff

6:00 p.m., September 1, 2018

Fire crews are on the scene of a brush fire at Ogilvy Ranch in the Los Padres National Forest.

The fire started near Santa Barbara Road around 4:00 p.m. Saturday.

At 4:35 p.m., the Los Padres National Forest Service reported the fire was at 50 acres and spreading at a moderate rate in between the Zaca, Rey, and Thomas fire burn scars.

New fire start near Ogilvy Ranch on Santa Barbara RD. Currently 50 acres with a moderate rate of spread burning in between Zaca, Rey & Thomas scars. Limited access, air assets playing a big role.

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It's too soon to say that it's out. Inciweb still doesn't have it listed. Because there are no new IR detects the fire does not seem to be spreading. Everything can change if we get bad winds. There's a twitter feed on the fire: #ogilvyfire and that doesn't have a lot of new information. I'd take that as good news. Until the containment gets to 100%, anything can happen in our dry chaparral .

Per the National Fire Situational Awareness map, all the IR detects that were orange earlier today are yellow with no new IR detects. It looks like they are doing great job keeping this thing from getting out of hand.

The three IR detects from the National Fire Situational Awareness map which were red are now orange with no new IR detections. This means little expansion of the perimeter overnight. We'll see how it behaves when things heat up during the day today. So far so good.

Hopefully this will get surrounded relatively quickly due to the previous burns around it. It is already showing up on the National Fire Situational Awareness map which you can paste into your browser. https://maps.nwcg.gov/sa/#/%3F/34.5091/-119.5799/11

Another twitter account update: https://twitter.com/EPN473 . Between the #ReyFire #ZacaFire and #ThomasFire burn scars all around it the #OgilvyFire has limited fuel beds to run through.
Update: #OgilvyFire now 80 acres fire not exhibiting any rapid growth or erratic conditions, no structure threat currently, Fire just outside the #ThomasFire burn scar #Breaking

I'm sorry about that all I heard through my scanner was copter 3 being requested for the incident at Ogilvy Ranch, I should have put 2 and 2 together I'm slow it took me awhile...Thanks for your info...

I called 911 to report smoke in backcountry at 3:20 - was told SBFS were already responding to a fire at Ogilvy Ranch. I tried to submit this news to Edhat at 3:30 but it wasn’t posted. Edhat is usually on the news within minutes.
Thanks Roger!